Reassessing Corbynism: success, contradictions and a difficult path ahead

[Denzil_DC]

33. Well, if he stopped telling blatant lies about the SNP's record in government when he comes up here

- especially when a number of the anti-austerity measures in the UK Labour manifesto have already been enacted by the SNP in government - that would be a start. It doesn't exactly bolster the case for a left-of-centre approach when he buys into and propagates the right-of-centre rhetoric of his Scottish branch. It doesn't help, either, when Labour goes into coalition with the Tories in the likes of Aberdeen Council (the members in question have been suspended from the Scottish Labour Party for now, but Dugdale's so toothless and the lack of capacity for support from Labour in the Scottish central belt is so blatant that it's unlikely to have any effect). That's just one such council, and a relatively big one, similar things have happened elsewhere. And sometimes it's Scottish Labour itself which is trying to prevent a Labour-SNP coalition, not local party representatives.

Ken, any funding projections that don't take into account the effects of a Brexit-fired recession (or worse) are crap, and can't be taken seriously. That's what a number of us have been trying to point out to you for quite some time.